Maybe, maybe not.
16 year-olds feeeeeeel that they are invincible. About the last thing in the world they are inclined to do is follow the advice of fuddy-duddies like their parents who tell them silly stories of what happens to youts who hang out on dark streets in the dead of night.
I lived in the area once upon a time and can say that I never went out - even for a pack of smokes - without being armed. And things have deteriorated significantly since then...
Even if it is determined the crime was based on race, Seattle police will come up with a term (such as “wilding”) so as to not have it classified as a hate crime. I know of what I speak. Remember the Central Park Jogger? She was white; perpetrators were all black or Hispanic — the crime “Wilding”. It was never classified as a hate crime.
16 year-olds feeeeeeel that they are invincible. About the last thing in the world they are inclined to do is follow the advice of fuddy-duddies like their parents who tell them silly stories of what happens to youts who hang out on dark streets in the dead of night.
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And not only that, but they are “taught” in the public fool system how NOT to be “racist” and “judgmental” to the point that good old fashioned common sense is just wrangled out of them.
Exactly. 100% spot on correct. I have taught kids like that in my classroom for over 20 years. It's called having a personal fable. Shrink-speak for just knowing it'll never happen to you. It's always the other guy. This is probably a good kid, judging from the comments he made and his dad made. They both sound like students and parents of mine. This is 2010, nobody has a curfew anymore. My own daughter did waaaaaay back when she was in high school (she is 29 now) but when she was a senior, not then. It was time to see if we'd raised her right so we could send her off to college and feel pretty good about her safety smarts. Even then, I always waited up until she was safe in her own bed. Even if it was after dawn. Maybe this dad was doing the same thing. Also remember, these parents and the kid, they're ALL sheep. They have no idea that the wolves are out there, stalking them for the kill. Me? I'm a SHEEPDOG and I raised my kid to be a Sheepdog, too. Maybe this young man will become a sheepdog because of this experience. I hope so.